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Chicago police have issued a missing person alert for a 13-year-old girl who was last seen on Friday. Nadia Hill was last seen in the area of the 3100 block of South Green Street and often frequents the area of 31st and Halsted Streets, police said. She is described as black with a medium complexion. She is 5-feet-4 inches tall and weighs 109 pounds. She has a mole on her top lip. Anyone with information is asked to call the Chicago Police Department 's Area Central Detectives at (312)

Police are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of those responsible for breaking into a police stable and injuring several horses last weekend. Late Sunday night, officers assigned to the mounted stable unit arrived on the grounds of the South Shore Cultural Center and found 27 horse out of their stalls, said Lt. Paul Bauer, a commander of the Chicago Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit. The horses were circling inside the stable's arena and were shaking.

By Peter Nickeas and Andrew Zuick and Chicago Tribune, September 7, 2012

Police say an intoxicated driver rear-ended a squad car in the Lakeview neighborhood early Friday morning. The car was hit about 1:40 a.m. in the 2500 block of West Addison Street, according to Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Amina Greer. Circumstances leading up to the crash weren't immediately available. The officers were taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in stable condition and the driver of the other car was taken to Swedish Covenant Hospital.

Chicago police have issued a missing person alert for a 13-year-old girl who was last seen on Friday. Nadia Hill was last seen in the area of the 3100 block of South Green Street and often frequents the area of 31st and Halsted Streets, police said. She is described as black with a medium complexion. She is 5-feet-4 inches tall and weighs 109 pounds. She has a mole on her top lip. Anyone with information is asked to call the Chicago Police Department 's Area Central Detectives at (312)

A young woman was recovering at a suburban hospital this morning after another woman cut her across the face and body during a quarrel on the city's Northwest Side, Chicago police said this morning. The 21-year-old victim was arguing with the other woman on the street in the 2400 block of North Lorel Avenue in the Cragin neighborhood when the 9 p.m. attack occurred, police said. The second woman pulled out a knife and sliced the victim's face, while stabbing her in the abdomen and back, police said.

The three children of a Chicago man who hung himself in a Chicago Police Department holding cell are suing the city for not properly monitoring their father, alleging the on-duty officers were aware of the man's propensity to commit suicide. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Cook County Circuit Court, says 49-year-old Guillermo Villamil was arrested on Sept. 8 and placed in a lock-up facility in the Hansen Park neighborhood at 5555 W. Grand Ave. He was placed alone in a cell and not monitored by police officers, the lawsuit said.

Police are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of those responsible for breaking into a police stable and injuring several horses last weekend. Late Sunday night, officers assigned to the mounted stable unit arrived on the grounds of the South Shore Cultural Center and found 27 horse out of their stalls, said Lt. Paul Bauer, a commander of the Chicago Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit. The horses were circling inside the stable's arena and were shaking.

A 16-year-old boy shot in the head early Friday morning in the Lawndale neighborhood was among at least four people wounded and one killed by gun violence in the city since 5:30 p.m. Thursday night. The teen was inside an apartment in the 1400 block of South Spaulding in the Lawndale neighborhood on the South Side about 1:40 a.m. when he was shot following a "domestic incident" inside the home, police said. The teen and another person fought and a third person intervened, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak said.

Three men were charged with armed robbery after police said they held two others at gunpoint outside a McDonald's near State Street and Chicago Avenue early Thursday morning and ran through their pockets. The attackers robbed the pair at gunpoint about 3:30 a.m. Thursday and took money, a phone, a watch, and a hat, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak said. One held them at gunpoint and the others went through their pockets, Kubiak said. Police later recovered the watch and the phone, but not the hat or money.

A couple dozen people stood silent outside police tape in Humboldt Park early Saturday morning as West Side police guarding a crime scene stood expressionless on the other side. Residents of the neighborhood tucked their hands inside hoodie sleeves to keep warm. Police put theirs behind duty vests. About three houses down from the tape, 26-year-old Jerrell Butler lay dead in a gangway, shot while standing on a sidwalk with his 32-year-old cousin, who was also wounded. The pair was among three people killed and eight others wounded in shootings in the city, mostly across the South and West Sides, Friday night and Saturday morning.

A young woman was recovering at a suburban hospital this morning after another woman cut her across the face and body during a quarrel on the city's Northwest Side, Chicago police said this morning. The 21-year-old victim was arguing with the other woman on the street in the 2400 block of North Lorel Avenue in the Cragin neighborhood when the 9 p.m. attack occurred, police said. The second woman pulled out a knife and sliced the victim's face, while stabbing her in the abdomen and back, police said.

A couple dozen people stood silent outside police tape in Humboldt Park early Saturday morning as West Side police guarding a crime scene stood expressionless on the other side. Residents of the neighborhood tucked their hands inside hoodie sleeves to keep warm. Police put theirs behind duty vests. About three houses down from the tape, 26-year-old Jerrell Butler lay dead in a gangway, shot while standing on a sidwalk with his 32-year-old cousin, who was also wounded. The pair was among three people killed and eight others wounded in shootings in the city, mostly across the South and West Sides, Friday night and Saturday morning.

A 16-year-old boy shot in the head early Friday morning in the Lawndale neighborhood was among at least four people wounded and one killed by gun violence in the city since 5:30 p.m. Thursday night. The teen was inside an apartment in the 1400 block of South Spaulding in the Lawndale neighborhood on the South Side about 1:40 a.m. when he was shot following a "domestic incident" inside the home, police said. The teen and another person fought and a third person intervened, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak said.

Three men were charged with armed robbery after police said they held two others at gunpoint outside a McDonald's near State Street and Chicago Avenue early Thursday morning and ran through their pockets. The attackers robbed the pair at gunpoint about 3:30 a.m. Thursday and took money, a phone, a watch, and a hat, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak said. One held them at gunpoint and the others went through their pockets, Kubiak said. Police later recovered the watch and the phone, but not the hat or money.

Police shot a 21-year-old armed man who jumped out of a van they tried to pull over in the Chatham neighborhood early Friday morning, according to officials. The pursuit started about 1:45 a.m. when four officers in a Gresham district car spotted a van driving with its side door open in the 7200 block of South Champlain Avenue, Fraternal Order of Police Spokesman Pat Camden said. The union represents rank-and-file police officers. "It's also a way the gangs do a lot of their drive-by shootings," Camden said.

By Peter Nickeas and Andrew Zuick and Chicago Tribune, September 7, 2012

Police say an intoxicated driver rear-ended a squad car in the Lakeview neighborhood early Friday morning. The car was hit about 1:40 a.m. in the 2500 block of West Addison Street, according to Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Amina Greer. Circumstances leading up to the crash weren't immediately available. The officers were taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in stable condition and the driver of the other car was taken to Swedish Covenant Hospital.

Officers wearing Chicago Police uniforms raided an apartment in Bridgeport late Wednesday and detained at least eight activists without justification, lawyers working on behalf of NATO protesters alleged today. Police refused to provide any details about the alleged raid or whether they were detaining people. Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy was asked about the allegation after announcing at a news conference this afternoon that there had been "zero arrests, as far as protest activity today.

Nineteen people were shot in attacks across the South and West sides between about 5:20 p.m. Thursday and 1:30 a.m. Friday - including 13 people during a single 30-minute period - according to the Chicago Police Department. The shootings peaked between about 9:15 and 9:45 p.m. Thursday when 13 people were shot, including eight in a single incident at 79th Street and Essex Avenue about 9:30 p.m. Police are still trying to sort out that shooting, the second of three incidents that left multiple people wounded since 8 p.m. As of 4 a.m., none of the 19 people shot had died.

— For Chicago delegates looking for a little piece of home, there was a familiar sight on the streets of Charlotte: officers from the Chicago Police Department. The city sent a contingent of cops to the Democratic National Convention as a "matter of professional reciprocity," said police spokeswoman Melissa Stratton. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department assisted Chicago during the NATO summit in May. The 50 Chicago officers took days off to come to Charlotte.

The three children of a Chicago man who hung himself in a Chicago Police Department holding cell are suing the city for not properly monitoring their father, alleging the on-duty officers were aware of the man's propensity to commit suicide. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Cook County Circuit Court, says 49-year-old Guillermo Villamil was arrested on Sept. 8 and placed in a lock-up facility in the Hansen Park neighborhood at 5555 W. Grand Ave. He was placed alone in a cell and not monitored by police officers, the lawsuit said.